夜
night
8 strokes
Dict coverage rank #409 U+591C
How 夜 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
A person 亻 sneaking by under cover 亠 of night 夕
How to remember it
night · Heisig RSH #872
top hat + 人 person + walking legs + 掉 drop
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Characters built with 夜 as their sound component
These characters all use 夜 (yè) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 夜 sound component | yè | night, dark; under cover of night |
| 液 | yè | fluid, liquid; juice, sap |
| 掖 | yè | to tuck, to fold; to support |
| 腋 | yè | armpit |
Words containing 夜
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 夜大学 | yè dà xué | evening college |
| 夜行性 | yè xíng xìng | nocturnality; nocturnal |
| 平安夜 | Píng ān Yè | Silent Night (Christmas carol); Christmas Eve |
| 夜开花 | yè kāi huā | bottle gourd (i.e. 瓠瓜[hu4 gua1]) |
| 一夜之间 | yī yè zhī jiān | (lit. and fig.) overnight |
| 开夜车 | kāi yè chē | to burn the midnight oil; to work late into the night |
| 一夜情 | yī yè qíng | one night stand |
| 小年夜 | xiǎo nián yè | (coll.) the night before lunisolar New Year's Eve; (Tw) the night before New Year's Eve (e… |
| 夜大 | yè dà | evening college (abbr. for 夜大學|夜大学[ye4 da4 xue2]) |
| 大夜 | dà yè | the second half of the night; early morning (cf. 小夜[xiao3 ye4], evening); (fig.) eternal r… |
| 子夜 | zǐ yè | midnight |
| 黑天半夜 | hēi tiān bàn yè | (idiom) in the middle of the night |
| 夜市 | yè shì | night market |
| 长夜难明 | cháng yè nán míng | lit. many nights under a harsh moon; long years of oppression (idiom) |
| 小夜 | xiǎo yè | the first half of the night; evening (cf. 大夜[da4 ye4], early morning) |
| 夜行军 | yè xíng jūn | a night march |
| 白夜 | bái yè | white night |
| 夜行 | yè xíng | night walk; night departure; nocturnal |
| 上夜 | shàng yè | to be on night duty |
| 大半夜 | dà bàn yè | the middle of the night |